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Title: Old MAME and New ROMs ?
Post by: 1Spoon on January 09, 2003, 07:13:17 am

I have v 0.60 and ROMs for that.
If I would like to run an older version of MAME (like .36 as I have read will run faster on older hardware) , do I then need older ROMs ?
Or can I use the ones I have?

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Title: Re:Old MAME and New ROMs ?
Post by: Mike on January 09, 2003, 09:41:03 am

You will need older roms but most of the older games haven't changed in a while so you might be fine. You can download romcenter and it will check them all out for you and rename any it can.

Title: Re:Old MAME and New ROMs ?
Post by: 1Spoon on January 10, 2003, 05:42:44 am

Thanks,
That

Title: Re:Old MAME and New ROMs ?
Post by: bignastyfart on January 11, 2003, 12:15:11 am

Also if you have any doubts you can check the ROMS on the mame.dk website.  They have a complete history of most (all?) of the MAME roms.  I recently built a cabinet and used the .37b9 version of MAME and the .61 version ROM sets.  Of course some of my games wouldn't run.  The ones that wouldnt run I researched on mame.dk and sure enough, the roms had changed.  MAME.DK is an excellent resource, check it out for kickarse ROM info.